We already know that the BCS title game winner will crown its mandatory champion and the USA Today poll of coaches will be obligated to crown that team as the winner of the “national title.”

But what if it isn’t?

Seriously, what if the two best teams don’t reach the best game?

As much as I hate to think of a deserving team having to pay a price for the greater good of the sport, a part of me hopes that happens this bowl season.

Here’s what I’d love to see happen. I want to see a clearly deserving team left on the outside looking in, and this is the year that it could surely happen.

With three weeks to go, I count no fewer than six teams that could stake legitimate claims on the top two spots in the BCS standings. That will likely thin out to no fewer than four by the end of the regular season.

So let’s assume that LSU and Oregon go to the BCS title game. I want to see a Kansas, an Oklahoma or Missouri spurned by the BCS computer, another deserving team like a West Virginia fall out of the title game by a few thousandths of a point, too, and Hawaii finish the season unbeaten. Then I want them to end up in other BCS bowl games and put on superior, dominating shows that will completely cloudy up the legitimacy of the alleged “national championship” game.

And then I want LSU and Oregon to go out and lay a big, fat, stinking egg. I want the Bayou Bengals and the Ducks to play an uninspired, downright ugly “national championship game.” 

Thus a perfect storm will be created.

The AP writers will then have the chance to thumb their noses at the BCS’s forced feeding of “computerized” champs and make its own statement and vote in a “champ” from one of the other bowl game winners.

I hate seeing my champions decided by votes and mistakes. That’s not sports. That’s politics.

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